McFadden & Whitehead

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Gene McFadden and John Whitehead had years of experience as cowriters and -producers of some of Philadelphia International's most indelible hits (the O'Jays' "Back Stabbers" among them) by the time they got their shot as recording artists in 1979. While their career as hit-making performers burned short, the light was bright. This album, their first, contained a propulsive multipurpose anthem in "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"; while nothing else here is quite as exciting as that, up-tempo Pendergrass-style cuts such as "Just Wanna Love You Baby" and "I Got the Love" are examples of label talent cruising at a peak just before the commercial, er, bottom fell out of disco. --Rickey Wright

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Average customer rating: Possibly the best recording of a Baroque opera on CD Don't miss this! One of the best baroque performances on disc

Purcell - King Arthur / Gens, McFadden, Piau, S. Waters, J. Best, Padmore, Paton, Salomaa, Les Arts Florissants, Christie Jonathan Best , Mark Padmore , Petteri Salomaa , Susannah Waters , and François Bazola Manufacturer: Erato ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Purcell, Henry | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Incidental Music | Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Purcell, Henry | Composers | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Christie, William | ( C ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mozart - Die Zauberflöte / Mannion, Dessay, Blochwitz, Scharinger, Hagen, Les Art Florissants, Christie Purcell: The Indian Queen Purcell - Dido & Æneas / Gens, Marin-Degor, N. Berg, Brua, Daneman, Fouchécourt, Mechaly, Les Arts Florissants, Christie Purcell: Dido and Aeneas / James, Lewis, Baker, Herincx Handel - Saul / Joshua · Bell · Zazzo · Ovenden · Saks · Slattery · RIAS Kammerchor · Concerto Köln · Jacobs ASIN: B000005EEH Release Date: 1995-06-06

Tracks:

1. King Arthur: Overture - William Christie
2. King Arthur: Air - William Christie
3. King Arthur: First Act: Woden, First To Thee - Chorus
4. King Arthur: First Act: The White Horse Neigh'd Aloud - Chorus
5. King Arthur: First Act: The Lot Is Cast, And Tanfan Pleas'd - Veronique Gens
6. King Arthur: First Act: Brave Souls, To Be Renown'd In Story - Chours
7. King Arthur: First Act: I Call You All To Woden's Hall - Chorus
8. King Arthur: First Act: Come If You Dare (Iain Paton) - Chorus
9. King Arthur: Second Act: Hither, This Way, This Way Bend - Claron McFadden
10. King Arthur: Second Act: Let Not A Moonborn Elf Mislead Ye - Hither, This Way, This Way Bend - Jonathan Best
11. King Arthur: Second Act: Come, Follow Me - Mhairi Lawson
12. King Arthur: Second Act: How Blest Are Shepherds - Chorus
13. King Arthur: Second Act: Shepherd, Shepherd, Leave Decoying - Veronique Gens
14. King Arthur: Second Act: Come, Shepherds, Lead Up A Lively Measure - Hornpipe - Chorus
15. King Arthur: Second Act: Second Act Tune - Air - William Christie
16. King Arthur: Third Act: Prelude - William Christie
17. King Arthur: Third Act: What Ho! Thou Genius Of This Isle - Susannah Waters
18. King Arthur: Third Act: Prelude While The Cold Genius Rises - What Power Art Thou - William Christie
19. King Arthur: Third Act: Thou Doting Fool - Susannah Waters
20. King Arthur: Third Act: Great Love, I Know Thee Now - Petteri Salomaa
21. King Arthur: Third Act: No Part Of My Dominion - Susannah Waters
22. King Arthur: Third Act: Prelude - William Christie
23. King Arthur: Third Act: See, See, We Assemble - Dance - Chorus
24. King Arthur: Third Act: 'Tis I That Have Warm'd Ye; Ritornello - 'Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us - Chorus
25. King Arthur: Third Act: Sound A Parley - 'Tis Love That Has Warm'd Us - Chorus
26. King Arthur: Third Act: Third Act Tune: Hornpipe - William Christie

Tracks:

1. King Arthur: Fourth Act: Two Daughters Of This Aged Stream Are We - Sandrine Piau
2. King Arthur: Fourth Act: How Happy The Lover/Ritornello - For Love Every Creature/In Vain Are Our Graces - Chorus
3. King Arthur: Fourth Act Tune: Air - William Christie
4. King Arthur: Fifth Act: Trumpet Tune - William Christie
5. King Arthur: Fifth Act: Ye Blust'ring Brethren Of The Skies - Petteri Salomaa
6. King Arthur: Fifth Act: Symphony - William Christie
7. King Arthur: Fifth Act: Round Thy Coast - Chorus
8. King Arthur: Fifth Act: For Folded Flocks, And Fruitful Plains - Jonathan Best
9. King Arthur: Fifth Act: Your Hay It Is Mow'd - Jonathan Best
10. King Arthur: Fifth Act: Fairest Isle - Veronique Gens
11. King Arthur: Fifth Act: You Say 'Tis Love - Jonathan Best
12. King Arthur: Fifth Act: Trumpet Tune - Warlike Consort
13. King Arthur: Fifth Act: Saint George - Chorus
14. King Arthur: Fifth Act: Our Natives Not Alone Appear - Chorus
15. King Arthur: Fifth Act: Chaconne - William Christie

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The Fairy Queen may be the most famous of Purcell's "semi-operas" (spoken dramas with extended musical items incorporated--not to say dropped in), but King Arthur, with text by John Dryden, is undoubtedly the most satisfying. Not only is the music captivating on its own terms, it's unusually well-integrated into the action--for example, one musical scene depicts the heathen Saxons performing a pre- battle ceremony; another shows good spirits guiding King Arthur and his men through a dark swamp while evil spirits try to mislead them. The first three acts have a lot of vivid battle and pastoral music, but the real goodies come on the second disc: the first duet of Act IV, in which seductive sirens Sandrine Piau and Claron McFadden attempt to lure Arthur into a stream ("come, come naked in, for we are so..."), and the masque in Act V in honor of Britannia, which includes (in addition to winning music) a Chamber-of-Commerce-like paean to British products such as fish, wool, and wheat, a rowdy drinking song with some pointed anticlerical sentiment, and the famous song "Fairest isle" (beguilingly sung by Véronique Gens). The multinational cast handles the English text well; other standouts include the marvelous tenor Mark Padmore and bass Petteri Salomaa. This recording was prepared right after Graham Vick's wildly successful production of the full Dryden/Purcell text at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris (the booklet has some impressive photos); not surprisingly, the performances have an extroverted theatrical energy usually missing from concert versions of this music. --Matthew Westphal

Customer Reviews:

Possibly the best recording of a Baroque opera on CD.......2006-10-01

There is a marvellous sense of energy and joy which comes from this recording. I have the Pinnock recording of King Arthur and I used to have the Gardiner recording (it was stolen from me). I enjoy many things in all the recordings of this work, but Les Arts Florissants's recording is very special. I sang in a performance of this work two years ago and I played both the Pinnock and Christie recordings to my fellow chorus members and all agreed that the Christie recording is just brilliant in every way.

The cast of this recording is superb, all the usual LAF suspects are here - Véronique Gens, Claron McFadden, Sandrine Piau, Mark Padmore, Petteri Salomaa and others - and the orchestra and chorus are in top form.

Needless to say, there is some irony in this work, in that the music is very French in its form, structure and effects - the Cold Genius aria was plagiarised from one of Lully's operas! The opera is, of course, a semi-opera and would have included a considerable amount of spoken dialogue. However, the music Purcell composed for King Arthur or The British Worthy is in a class of its own. Only his French contemporaries Marc-Antoine Charpentier and André Campra penned music of the same quality.

I highly recommend this beautiful and exciting recording to all music lovers.

Don't miss this!.......1999-04-04

Per Gramophone, this recording is one of the 75 best opera recordings of all time. I couldn't agree more. Bravo, William Christie. At least one other recording by Christie is also on this list (I didn't check, maybe there are more): Charpentier Medee.

One of the best baroque performances on disc.......1999-03-08

As with many other Les Arts Florissants recordings, this one followed a live production, and it shows: the vocal and orchestral characterization of the music is all the more expressive and meaningful. King Arthur, like most other Purcell's "operas," is a combination of spoken drama and "incidental music" to accompany it. Les Arts Florissants presented the entire four-hour spectacle on stage, but committed to disc only the musical part. Yet, even without the spoken word, every scene feels complete. Especially memorable are the scene of sacrifice in the first act, the famous scene of the Cold Genius (wonderfully sung by Petteri Salomaa); and the succession of vocal numbers in the fifth act, including "The Fairest Isle" (in which Veronique Gens simply shines) and the incredible ATB trio "For Folded Flocks" (Padmore, Paton, Best). Incidentally, here as elsewhere, Christie adopts a lower pitch of a' 392 Hz in order to enable high tenors (hautes-contre) to sing alto parts. This has become Christie's signature practice, and it is perfectly borne out by the latest scientific research into authentic baroque performance methods. This recording won a major Gramophone award in 1995, a very deserved recognition of excellence!

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Agustín Barrios: Guitar Music 3 Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Guitar | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: David Russell: Art of the Guitar Agustín Barrios: Guitar Music, Vol. 2 Barrios: Guitar Music, Vol. 1 ASIN: B000OQDRTQ Release Date: 2007-05-29

Average customer rating: RIP : Gene McFadden 1/27/06 and John Whitehead 5/11/04 Funky Disco 1980 Phillies World Series Song. great group i love the fifst song

McFadden & Whitehead McFadden & Whitehead Manufacturer: The Right Stuff ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music Philly Soul | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Funk | R&B | Styles | Music Similar Items: Love Come Down: The Best of Evelyn "Champagne" King Got to Be Real: The Best of Cheryl Lynn Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now: Best of the Pie Years Skyy Line Classic Masters ASIN: B000006LA7 Release Date: 1998-08-11

Tracks:

1. Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
2. I've Been Pushed Aside
3. Mr. Music
4. Just Wanna Love You Baby
5. Got To Change
6. You're My Someone To Love
7. I Got The Love
8. Do You Want To Dance

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Gene McFadden and John Whitehead had years of experience as cowriters and -producers of some of Philadelphia International's most indelible hits (the O'Jays' "Back Stabbers" among them) by the time they got their shot as recording artists in 1979. While their career as hit-making performers burned short, the light was bright. This album, their first, contained a propulsive multipurpose anthem in "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now"; while nothing else here is quite as exciting as that, up-tempo Pendergrass-style cuts such as "Just Wanna Love You Baby" and "I Got the Love" are examples of label talent cruising at a peak just before the commercial, er, bottom fell out of disco. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

RIP : Gene McFadden 1/27/06 and John Whitehead 5/11/04.......2006-01-29

Two irreplaceable musicmakers.

Funky Disco.......2004-12-25

In 1979 the famous Sound of Philadelphia of Sigma Sound Studios threw up this delicious album of funky disco. The big hit was Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now, a mid tempo dance number with lovely interplay between the male and female vocals. Mr Music is another slab of bubbly party funk, whilst Just Wanna Love You Baby is somewhat heavier. I Got The Love is a strong piece with passionate vocals and full bodied instrumentation. There are slow soulful ballads like I've Been Pushed Aside and You're My Someone To Love whilst the romantic dance number Do You Want To Dance, an extended workout with rhythm breaks and urgent vocals, concludes the album. McFadden and Whitehead's music operated in a niche somewhere between the Philly sound of MFSB and the heavier funk of artists like Rick James and Parliament or Funkadelic. It still sounds good after all these years and is a good showcase of the funkier side of the famous Philly Sound.

1980 Phillies World Series Song........2000-10-26

I am interested in getting the 1980 World Series (McFadden & Whitehead) song "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now". (Phillies & KC Royal's) E-Mail: SJJDJR@CS.COM

great group.......2000-02-10

i to am interested in getting the disco or longer version of aint no stoppin us now.please e-mail on where i locate this and many more old school songs.

i love the fifst song.......1999-06-01

I AM INTERESTED IN GETTING A LONG VERSION OF AINT NO STOPPING US NOW MY EMAIL IS DALELYNNJE@AOL MY NANAME IS JE

Average customer rating: A Powerful Gospel Quartet with a Touch of the Modern... OFF THE HOOK

I've Got a Right Darrell Mcfadden & The Disciples Manufacturer: EMI Gospel ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Similar Items: Confirmation: Book of Songs Chronicles: Book of Songs, Vol. 1-3 Just Being Me Tell the Angels: Live in Memphis The Soul Seekers ASIN: B000CNF4JW Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

1. Be Ready
2. Calling Me
3. Thank You
4. I Believe
5. I've Got A Right
6. Hold On
7. Who'll Be A Witness
8. Spirit Now
9. Shackles
10. O How I Love Jesus/Further Along

Customer Reviews:

A Powerful Gospel Quartet with a Touch of the Modern..........2006-10-14

Favorites are: I believe, Who'll be a Witness, Spirit Now, Shackles. Very underrated group that should be mentioned in the same breath as the Soul Seekers, The Williams Brothers, Texas Boyz, and Christianaires.

OFF THE HOOK.......2006-01-18

This CD is what gospel music is all about. It touches all bases traditional & contemporary. Does it get any better. I Love It.

Lamar Smith

Average customer rating: Robert King deserves to be famous in America, too Bargain-priced first-class overview

Essential Handel Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Concerto Grossi | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Sacred & Religious | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Choruses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music $6.99 and Under | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: The King's Consort Collection Essential Purcell Essential Vivaldi: 20 Greatest Masterpieces The Very Best of Victoria de los Angeles Handel - Coronation Anthems / Gritton, Blaze, M. George, Choir of King's College Cambridge, AAM, Cleobury ASIN: B000A7XJQA Release Date: 2005-10-11

Customer Reviews:

Robert King deserves to be famous in America, too.......2006-07-23

Robert King and his King's Consort have made dozens of recordings, establishing themselves in London as a pre-eminent Baroque group. They benefit greatly from King's unflagging energy and musical insight. Twenty years ago you couldn't say that the period movement had attracted the best musicians and conductors. That situation has changed radically, and this sampler CD from King's complete recordings exhibits first-class playing throughout. Baroque singing is at a high level, too, but you couldn't say that his singers are of Met or Royal Opera House quality--even so, they are very good.

As an indicator of the strides that period performance has made, this is an eye-opening CD, but it's also engaging for the general listener, like me, who only dips into Handel's many, many operas and oratorios occasionally.

Bargain-priced first-class overview.......2006-05-01

This is a great CD for beginners, but also for those who already have a few Handel CDs. So often samplers have all the favourites which you already have on other CDs. But this set has a few well-known tracks, such as Zadok the Priest, See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes and La Rejouissance from The Fireworks, but mostly wonderful music, superbly played which is not extremely well known.

Highly recommended.

Average customer rating: ok, but wait for the new one! Make that a 4 1/2

Diamonds to Coal Eric McFadden Trio Manufacturer: Window Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Joy of Suffering Eric McFadden Solo ASIN: B0000E32ZS Release Date: 2003-10-14

Tracks:

1. Working for a Dead Man
2. Field of Bones
3. How Would It Feel
4. Hey Bulldog
5. Clowns of the Deep
6. Einstein Wardrobe
7. Pobre Constantina
8. Babydoll
9. I Feel Too Good to Die
10. What Is They?
11. Diamonds to Coal
12. Devil Moon
13. Timeless

Customer Reviews:

ok, but wait for the new one!.......2005-08-05

Well, as the first reviewer said, this CD does not live up to the live show that these guys put on. However, unlike the previous reviewer, this CD didn't grow on me. The songs are good, but the mix is just plain criminal- James' bass should be way up front in the mix, but instead it was put waayyyy in back so it's barely audible. I do have good news though- the new CD "Joy of Suffering" will be coming out around october, or available now at shows, and it kicks some major ass! James is all over the place slappin' that bass around, and Eric has quite a few of his trademark solos. There is not one song I would skip. So check it out.

Make that a 4 1/2.......2004-03-09

At first I really didn't like this album. I'd seen these guys perform live a few times and this album just didn't measure up to the energy of their live shows. But then again you can say the same thing about most albums. Upon repeated listens this album really grew on me. This album, and the band themselves, is hard to discribe. At a live show I heard it described as heavy metal played on accoustic instruments. That's kind of misleading because everything is all electrified and amped up, but the fact that's all played on accoustic guitars and a stand-up bass makes this sound very unique. McFadden is probably the best guitar player no one ever heard of, he changes styles a lot and can play just about anything. James Whiton is a fantastic bass player and again this album doesn't do justice to his live performances. His style is unique and often makes his bass more of a percussion instrument than a string instrument. Jeff "The Commander" Anthony is solid on drums. I'd say pick this up of your looking for something new in the rock world that doesn't fit nicely into any category. If you see these guys come to your town for a show you MUST go see them live. An experience not to be missed. Just hope they play their version of Clap Hands or their blistering cover of Black Sabbath (better than the original, one of Tony Iommi's best solos played on an accoustic guitar, Woah)

Average customer rating: perfect. Perfect. Expensive! exciting An Incredible Merger of Rock & Opera

Nicholas Lens: Flamma Flamma (The Fire Requiem) Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Requiems | Forms & Genres | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Requiems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Osvaldo Golijov: Ainadamar ASIN: B000002AQ5 Release Date: 1995-08-22

Tracks:

1. Hic Iacet I
2. Hic Iacet II
3. Sumus Vicinae
4. Tegite Specula
5. Complorate Filiae
6. Vale Frater
7. Amice Mi
8. Corpus Inimici
9. Deliciae Meae
10. Flamma Flamma
11. Ave Ignis
12. In Corpore
13. Agnus Purus
14. Ardeat Ignis

Customer Reviews:

perfect........2004-07-01

if you're into Orff style things, this one is the culmination.
enjoy. I certainly did.

Perfect........2004-07-01

If you've enjoyed Carl Orff, this is his legitimate successor.
Nicholas Lens is perfectionism not over but cross professionalism.
This is one of the few CDs these days that you ought to pay
money for. It is really worth every cent.

Expensive!.......2003-11-12

I believe this recording is very good. Still $999.99 for a used copy seems quite expensive. Or $1,002.48 with shipping - as I just found out. Don't you think?

exciting.......2003-03-04

This is very compelling, dynamic music, & so idiosyncratic. Definitely unique, & moves in a very modern & brilliant way, especially with the interesting ways it makes use of different vocal lines...

An Incredible Merger of Rock & Opera.......2002-04-16

When I first heard this piece, it reminded me of the soprano solo from "The Fifth Element." This CD spans quite a range of music, from beautiful laments for lost loved ones to almost annoying choruses harping about the darker side of death. Unlike most requiems, which are straight laments, this one is more of a commentary on death. This one gets better with each listen. I particularly recommend the second-to-last track, Agnus Purus -- what an incredible choral movement and key change at the end. I could easily see this as the foundation for a movie soundtrack, or a new TV drama.

Average customer rating: Good,Very good,But Not Great I love this Disk The first CD I have loved in Y ears Proves he doesn't need Westlife Just total terrible this CD, disgusted beyond words!

Irish Son Brian McFadden Manufacturer: Sbme Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Westlife - Unbreakable: Greatest Hits V.1 (+1 Bonus Love Album Face to Face Coast to Coast Westlife: Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 ASIN: B00065LGP2 Release Date: 2004-12-06

Tracks:

1. Irish Son
2. Real To Me
3. Demons
4. Lose Lose Situation
5. He's No Hero
6. Sorry Love Daddy
7. Pull Myself Away
8. Be True To Your Woman
9. Walking Disaster
10. Walking Into Walls
11. Almost Here

Album Description

First solo album from the ex-member of Westlife! Includes the 1st single 'Real To Me' and 'Almost Here' (duet with Delta Goodrem). Sony. 2004.

Album Details

2004 Debut Solo Full Length from the Former Westlife Member.

Customer Reviews:

Good,Very good,But Not Great.......2006-05-02

Brian McFadden was a key member of the Irish boyband Westlife and in his songs in this,his first album as a solo artist,we catch glimpses of the influence and style of the hugely sucessful group. Brian,as you may recall,actually broke away from the band to spend more time with his wife but within two months of his departure from Westlife, Brian McFadden released his first solo single "Real to Me", one of the few genuinely great songs in this CD.

"Real to Me" is a fantastic single with a melodious music complementing the powerful lyrics. Another track that exhibits the array of talent of this Irishman is "Irish Son"---composed on a patriotic theme that fires up the sense of nationalism, this title-track is a great way to start the CD. "He's No Hero" and " Sorry Love Daddy" invoke a softer kind of music with an air of melancholy about them. Actually I feel that Brian McFadden's voice is suited to such types of songs and not to fast and loud music as in " Lose Lose Situation" and "Pull Myself Away", which in my opinion, sound wan and emotionless. "Demons", "Be True To Your Woman", "Walking Disaster" and " Walking Into Walls" are good songs but somehow fail to capture our heart and eventually passed by leaving an expression of a mere shallow depth of enjoyment. The best song in "Irish Son" in my judgement is "Almost Here", a great duet by two amazing vocalists. Delta Gudrem and Brian McFadden compilment each other exquisitely in this track and as the music moves from a soft to a mid-tempo rhythm and the lyrics become more and more touching, you are invariably led to accept and imbibe the profound emotion and sentimentality of this song.

Robbie Williams, Ronan Keating and Justin Timberlake all broke away from their respective groups and launched massively successful solo careers. Brian McFadden too has endeavoured to acomplish just that and has produced a mixed bag in his maiden album "Irish Son". But he has got more to do if he wants to be a real heavyweight in the arena of Pop solo artist since as more time elapses, people will tend to associate him less and less with Westlife and then Brian has to create and sustain and individual identity bereft of past glories. Brian McFadden has the talent, the voice and the intensity to establish himself as a great male solo vocalist but for that he would've to pay attentiion to what types of music he creates and the sensibitity of his songs. I feel that his voice doesn't allow him to make all and any kinda of music and the Irishman must stick to this limitation and not try something that goes beyond, not atleast in the next two CDs.

I love this Disk.......2006-03-07

It has been a long time since I have heard a CD of substance. There are so many artists out there today who only sing the praises of using and demeaning woman, and this is not one of them. This is a CD that tells how life really is, and it is down to earth, and just plain good. One of the best cd's I have heard in a long time.

The first CD I have loved in Y ears.......2006-03-03

I was living in the UK when the album was released, a year ago. I Loved the couple of songs I had heard on the radio, and when I moved back to the states, I found myself longing to hear them again. I purchased the CD, and to my surprise, I liked every song on it. I have owned this CD for 7-8 months now, and can honestly say that not a day goes by that I don't listen to it.

I found this CD to be refreshing. It is much better than most of the music released these days, and much better than what is being released in the UK. If you want to hear nothing but remakes the UK is the place to go.

Proves he doesn't need Westlife.......2006-02-08

At first, I'll admit, I was really upset when Brian McFadden decided to leave the band (for more than the reason he had given in the press release). However, I had always anticipated his CD, and when it did come out, I rushed to get it. It was simply amazing.

The straight-forward lyrics and honesty sound so natural when put into those fabulous tunes. He really does have a knack for songwriting, already proven in a few Westlife tracks beforehand.

"Sorry Love Daddy" reduced me to tears when I first heard it without knowing the context. It is plain, honest, filled with guilt for what he had done and leaving his two daughters like he did. "Be True to Your Woman" is an apology in disguise, written to his ex-wife Kerry Kantona. Again, touching, with thoughtful lyrics.

The duet with Delta Goodrem ("Almost Here") is one of the very best duets ever sung in recent music history. It's not fancy, it's not complicated, it's not filled with amazing chords and high notes. It's the opposite: It's simple, sophisticated, and most importantly, so easy to listen to. It's so soothing just to hear their voices. Brian and the producers are extra thoughtful to lower the background music when it's Delta's turn to sing, knowing that her voice is much softer than Brian's. This creates a dramatic contrast between them, suiting how the song develops.

All other songs are very soothing and pleasing, but nothing too special to mention. But I'm sure, if you liked Brian McFadden as a person, as a member of Westlife or his voice, then you won't be disappointed by this.

Just total terrible this CD, disgusted beyond words!.......2005-12-03

I can't get what peeps find so good with this so terrible CD of the Ex Westlifer Brian McFadden. It may appear many lack the musical/emotional sensitivity nowdays, thinking everything is great, how sad. After somebody gave it to me, and one so unbearable listen, I just threw it away, found Brians voice, lyrics, music and all some of the worst heard to date, and to top it off the horrid Duett with Delta Goodrem whom I'm fan of, just total disgusted and saddened me beyond words - This is typical Brian as he did to the poor Atomic Kitten member, not too long ago. All the Rumours regarding Delta & Brian should be treated as empty air, as how insensitive the media is nowdays - No match in Heaven!. And hope that this so totally untalented Ex Westlifer will never put out another Album again, and never sing with the OZ Sweetheart ever again,as she doesnt deserve to be made so dirty by this horrible Brian McFadden with his so dark past, and this so bad CD also shows, noticing his poor songwriting on the sideline just too clearly. A very bad CD of a very bad singer, that should not have been...Very sad!

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Chronicles: Book of Songs, Vol. 1-3 Darrell McFadden & The Disciples Manufacturer: World Wide Gospel ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Christian Contemporary Music | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Similar Items: I've Got a Right Confirmation: Book of Songs In the House of the Lord: Live in Houston Soulful Healing ASIN: B000294RL2 Release Date: 2004-07-13

Tracks:

1. City
2. I Want to Be in That Number
3. Calvary
4. Confirmation (Interlude)
5. God Said I'm Blessed
6. Gonna Be a Rapture
7. He Can, He Will
8. Help Me
9. I Can't Even Walk
10. I've Come This Far by Faith
11. It's a Wonder (What God Can Do)
12. Jesus Is My Friend
13. Jesus Is Real
14. Last Move
15. Lay Down My Life for the Lord

Tracks:

1. Welcome Home
2. Lord, Send Me
3. Something on the Inside
4. Mary, Mary
5. Never Alone
6. Come on and See About Me
7. Where Jesus Is
8. Refuge (Interlude)
9. Refuge
10. Satisfied Mind
11. Someone Who Loves Me (Interlude)
12. Someone Who Loves Me
13. Swong Low, Sweet Chariot
14. Building Me a Mansion
15. That's Alright (Long as I Got Jesus)
16. Two Face
17. Until I Found the Lord
18. Teardrops
19. Worship and Praise Medley

Average customer rating: Beauty, grace and joy Rush to buy L'Allegro Sheer delight!

Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato / Gritton, McFadden, L. Anderson, Agnew, N. Davies; King George Frideric Handel , Robert King , Susan Gritton , Claron McFadden , Lorna Anderson , Paul Agnew , The King's Consort , and Neal Davies Manufacturer: Hyperion UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Handel - Alexander Balus / Denley, George, C. Daniels, Dawson, McFadden, The King's Consort Handel - Deborah / Y. Kenny · Gritton · Denley · Bowman · M. George · The King's Consort · King Handel - Joshua / Kirkby, Bowman, Oliver, Ainsley, George, The King's Consort Samson Choice of Hercules ASIN: B000026CVB Release Date: 1999-10-12

Tracks:

1. OVERTURE [Grave]: Allegro - Lentement - Allegro Moderato
2. PART ONE: Accompagnato - Hence, loathed Melancholy
3. Accompagnato - Hence, vain deluding Joys
4. Air - Come, thou goddess fair and free
5. Air - Come rather, goddess, sage and holy
6. Air - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with thee
7. Air - Come and trip it as you go
8. Accompagnato - Come, pensive nun, devout and pure
9. Air - Come, but keep thy wonted state
10. Accompagnato - There, held in holy passion still
11. Recitative - Hence, loathed Melancholy!
12. Air - Mirth, admit me of thy crew
13. Accompagnato - First and chief, on golden wing
14. Air - Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of Folly
15. Recitative - If I give thee honour due
16. Air - Mirth, admit me of thy crew
17. Air - Oft on a plat of rising ground
18. Air - Far from all resort of mirth
19. Recitative - If I give thee honour due
20. Air - Let me wander not unseen
21. Air - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures
22. Accompagnato - Mountains, on whose barren breast
23. Air - Or let the merry bells ring round

Tracks:

1. PART TWO: Accompagnato - Hence, vain deluding Joys
2. Air - Sometimes let gorgeous tragedy
3. Air - But O, sad virgin, that thy pow'r
4. Air - Thus, Night, oft see me in thy pale career
5. Chorus - Populous cities please me [us] then
6. Air - There let Hymen oft appear
7. Accompagnato - Me, when the sun begins to fling
8. Air - Hide me from Day's garish eye
9. Air - I'll to the well-trod stage anon
10. Air - And ever against eating cares
11. Air - Orpheus' self may heave his head
12. Air - These delights if thou canst give
13. Recitative - But let my due feet never fail
14. Chorus - There let the pealing organ blow
15. Air - May at last my weary age
16. Fugue - Organo ad libitum il soggetto della fuga seguente
17. Chorus - These pleasures, Melancholy, give
18. PART THREE: Accompagnato - Hence! boast not, ye profane
19. Air - Come, with native lustre shine
20. Accompagnato - Sweet Temp'rance in thy right hand bear
21. Air - Come, with gentle hand restrain
22. Recitative - No more short life they then will spend
23. Air - Each action will derive new grace
24. Duet - As steals the morn upon the night
25. Chorus - Thy pleasures, Moderation, give

Amazon.com

Handel's oratorios may be loaded with wonderful music, but their librettos have tended to draw some sniping. It's true that some of them can be rather banal, but others are very impressive--the biblical texts Charles Jennens assembled for Messiah and Israel in Egypt, for example, and John Dryden's ode Alexander's Feast. One particularly inspired idea Handel's colleagues had was to take excerpts from John Milton's poems "L'Allegro" (about the joys of sophisticated hedonism) and "Il Penseroso" (about the joys of contemplative solitude) and interweave them to make a sort of musical debate. At Handel's request, Jennens wrote a concluding section titled "Il Moderato," which unites the two opposing temperaments under the guidance of "Sweet Temp'rance." The result is one of Handel's most colorful scores, with such treats as a robust aria with hunting horns, a laughter chorus, a gentle duet for soprano and cello, and arias and choruses with featured parts for trumpets, organ, and even the tinkling bells of a carillon. Not to mention "Sweet bird," one of the very greatest "birdsong" arias, in which a flute imitates a bird and a soprano imitates the flute. How odd, then, that this is only the second recording of L'Allegro in 20 years. Luckily, it's a good one. Conductor Robert King and his orchestra and choir do their work well, certainly, but it's the soloists who make this performance special. Lorna Anderson does a lovely "Sweet bird" with a particularly good trill; soprano Susan Gritton sounds sweeter and more eloquent than ever; and the fabulous tenor Paul Agnew uses an amazing range of tone colors, from angelic purity to intimidating harshness. All in all, this L'Allegro is good enough to silence any grumbling about what took Hyperion so long to record it. --Matthew Westphal

Customer Reviews:

Beauty, grace and joy.......2007-02-15

A wonderful performance of a beautiful piece. Good taste personified! In a complete and uncut studio recording. Robert King is served by excellent orchestral playing and strong singers. Susan Gritton's singing is wonderful. I can find nothing to fault and everything to commend. Buy it!

Rush to buy L'Allegro.......2000-04-23

This is music that makes you feel glad to be alive - is there any composer better at expressing joy than Handel? This piece is all about the multi-faceted joys to be experienced - of the hunt(CD1, 16), the carnival (CD1, 23), solitude (CD1, 8,9), the theatre (CD2, 2,9) and the beauty of the night (CD2, 24). It is also a wonderful, perhaps unsurpassed, evocation of pre-industrial England. The singing is almost always first rate and Robert King seems to have shaken off the slightly restrained demeanor of some of his earlier Handel recordings and perhaps as a consequence the King's Consort and Choir are inspired. If you are unconvinced listen to the gorgeous duet at the end of part 3, possibly the best Handel ever wrote, and the sheer verve of the tenor air and chorus, 'These delights if though canst give'.

Sheer delight!.......2000-03-16

This is really a feast for Handelians, beautifully played and sung. The earlier recording of this oratorio, made by Gardiner in the 80-ties, is not only incomplete but also less impressively executed. It is wonderful to have both sets, but this new one from Robert King brings much more life to this splendid music. It is one of my desert island discs!

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